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Each of the services is free, but some form of user registration is required. Each are part of the web's "social networking" system.

Here's a brief description of each, how to use them and links to register and find out:

Reddit

Reddit allows users to submit news articles and other online content to the site. Users also give articles a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Reddit then uses those votes to build a user profile and recommend articles . Users also submit comments on items posted to the site.

Digg

Digg is a news website. It combines social bookmarking, blogging and syndication with democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.

del.icio.us

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.

You can also use del.icio.us to see links your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can browse and search del.icio.us to discover useful bookmarks everyone else has saved -- which is made easy with tags.